Category: web 2.0
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The ethic of minimal clicks for classroom digital storytelling
I have been thinking quite a bit about the differences in using web-based tools like Voicethread, PodcastPeople, Bubbleshare or podOmatic to create audio-only or enhanced podcasts (technically speaking I suppose, “digital stories” since Voicethreads and Bubbleshares are not yet true podcasts) compared to desktop software like Audacity, PhotoStory3, or Garageband. In the past, I’ve spent…
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K12Online07: Some Initial Statistics
The FREE 2007 K-12 Online Conference is off to a great start. We know this based on the feedback shared via comments on the main conference blog, but the statistics from our ClustrMap as well as Feedburner feeds also show lots of folks are participating. Here are a few highlights. To put this in perspective,…
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2 More K12Online07 PD Reflections
I’ve posted two more reflections for professional development credit to the “open web” (to use a new term I learned from D’Arcy Norman) on my personal professional development reflections blog, using Gabcast. These reflections are on the presentations “More Than Cool Tools” and “Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating.” Both were/are…
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PD Reflection and Reflection on Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools
Following the guidelines of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference professional development committee’s posted rubric, I’ve used Gabcast this afternoon/evening to reflect on Liz Kolb’s wonderful presentation yesterday “Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools.” I have created a new blog on Blogger (for free of course) for my professional development reflections, for the K12Online07 conference as…
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Come and get them: 18 new k12online07 enclosures
Day 2 of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference is underway, including updated podcast channels for both audio and video. Hopefully we’ve got the MIME type issues resolved in the feeds, I did have to resync the audio feed this morning because there was an error in the feedburner version. Hopefully if you’re using iTunes and…
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Balancing freedom for creativity and a need for reasonable uniformity
Tomorrow we are publishing 18 different audio and video files for day 2 of the K-12 Online Conference! Be sure to subscribe to both the audio and video podcast channels! As in the 2006 conference, we have wonderful presentations using so many different web 2.0 tools! Hopefully we’ve struck a good balance between encouraging creativity…
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A Vision of Students Today
Add the video “A Vision of Students Today” from Professor Michael Wesch and his cultural anthropology students at Kansas State University to your personal list of “must see” videos about our need for educational reform and videos for professional development. This video uses the same effective technique I’ve seen previously in “Hero in the Hallway”…
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K-12 Online video podcast channel fixed
Thanks for the input / assistance – I was able to modify the K-12 Online Conference video podcast feed (using FeedForAll software) so that m4v presentations now show up as they should in the channel and in iTunes. This required checking the iTunes box under “extensions” for the video feed: Once that was selected, I…
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Eric Langhorst’s keynote at MOREnet
These are my text notes from Eric Langhorst, 2007-2008 Missouri state teacher of the year, at the MOREnet conference (MITC07)on 15 Oct 2007. “Why Is My Classroom Web 2.0?” This was the conference keynote address. Eric recorded it and will be posting it on his podcast channel in upcoming weeks. “It’s amazing what happens when…
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K-12 Online 2007: Go for launch!
Day One of the first regular week of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference is up and running! Being online with Sheryl and Lani for the launch this morning, I felt like someone watching the launch of the space shuttle or another rocket from Cape Canaveral. 🙂 “Mission control, we are GO FOR LAUNCH. Repeat, we…